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copperheadism

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Cop⋅per⋅head⋅ism

  [kop-er-hed-iz-uhm]
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–noun
U.S. History. (during the Civil War) the advocacy of peace negotiations to restore the Union to its prewar condition, with continued slavery in the South.
Origin:
1860–65, Americanism; copperhead + -ism
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